ExFish, by Randy Tayler
Chapter 3 verse 2

Apr 23, 2024

Today's comic, and web traffic insights

I don't like the punchline in today's comic. It feels antagonistic. But it was a crucial setup for April 24's comic.

I think, anyway. It's hard to recall exactly what I was thinking when I made these 2 months ago.

In other news, I've now announced the site in two subreddits, and gotten great responses. Yesterday I had more than 200 visitors to the site, each reading on average about 10 comics each. Yay!

However.

As I delved into the logs, I found that a decent percentage of these are bots. Some benign, like Googlebot or Bingbot or whatever, indexing the pages. Others were clearly attacks on the site from automated hacking bots. Thankfully, perhaps, I don't use any libraries for the site - it's all home-grown, from the blog engine to the comic formatter to the cron that runs updates - and so I'm a pretty small target with a pretty heavy lift to hack. 

Note to hackers: please don't take that as a challenge. 

In other other news, I'm moving on Saturday. Painters are at my new place, appliances come on Thursday, new carpet comes on Friday, and by Saturday night I'll hopefully be pacing frantically in my new place, second-guessing the whole decision to buy a place instead of renting, and unable to fall asleep. :) 

Pray for me (Sorry, old habits die hard.)

-Randy

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